Islam students at LUC

This week I read an article where a top Israel official acknowledged that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said that Iran seeks to “wipe Israel off the face of the map.” This quote has been used by Israel and the United States as backing for military action in Iran. The president did however say that [...]

This week I watched a special on Listen Network titled “The Truth about Islam.” From the title I was already skeptical, but I normally never watch television so I wanted to see something entertaining. This show was entertaining, but only in the ludicrous sense. It was a discussion between an American Arabic woman and an [...]

                Last week in class we learned yet again about the role of God in our lives; a person who is very in tune with God believes that everything he sees is what God intended him to see much like a good director controls the audience’s eyes to focus on certain parts of the screen. [...]

Journalist Seymour Hersh, the same journalist who uncovered the My Lai Massacre, has recently revealed reports that the Bush administration secretly trained an Iranian opposition group on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorists. Previously self-designated as an “Islamist Marxist” group, today their goals seem to be more secular and aim to overthrow the Islamic [...]

                A middle aged Iraqi woman was recently murdered in El Cajon, California. El Cajon houses the largest community of Iraqi immigrants in the United States. The woman was found in a pool of blood in her kitchen with a severe head wound and a hate note. The emigrant community there feels welcome most of [...]

Last week in class half of the people were missing due to the MSA talent show, but professor Mozhaffar still tried to give us a thick packet to interpret; however, he would not stop talking to us and asking questions while we tried to read it and eventually just showed us a documentary on the [...]

Last week in class we covered the Qur’an’s preservation and the difficulty of creating a story that can be read in all the languages and dialects of the Arabian Peninsula. It was also a challenge to discover an accurate account of Muhammad’s life, and Western historians find challenge in its style- it does not have [...]

For the past two classes we viewed and finished the movie My Name is Khan (pronounced hhhahn). The girl sitting next to me told me that if I did not cry during that movie that I was inhuman. It was a touching movie, and I believe it was a very easing introduction into the class [...]

We had no class last week, but we would have watched a documentary on 9/11 and Islam. Instead I went home to Florida to visit my family and soak up some rays, but a cold front came through and brought cloudy weather and high winds. It was nice seeing the folks though. This week’s reading, [...]

This week in class we discussed the succession to Muhammad and the role of scripture in society. A main focus was the concept of belief- religions are still around because they tap into something that is innate in the human experience. Along with belief, the Qur’an states that it is the word of God and [...]